The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 276
be acknowledged as the most advantageous con-struction. Mr. De Bergue said he had obtained nearly seventy-eight per cent, ofpower from a breast-wheel, with a good fall, when the periphery was travel-ling at a velocity of 6 feet per second. He had erected several of Ponceletswheels, and thought well… … Fig. C,—Water-wheel on Poncelets system. Mr. WicKSTEED considered the wheels in Cornwall and those in Lancashirewere so differently employed, that no useful comparison could be drawnbetween them. He thought, however, that no doubt could exist as to theadvantages of Mr. Fairhairns improvements,…
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